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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the Count think it will be safe to escape?
(a) Within a few days when the hunt is abandoned.
(b) A week.
(c) In a few weeks.
(d) April.

2. What rank are Bush and Brown?
(a) First and second mate.
(b) Both midshipmen.
(c) First mate and Steward.
(d) A First Lieutenant and Coxswain.

3. What does Hornblower learn about Leighton?
(a) He is being relieved of command.
(b) He is promoted.
(c) He is being court martialed.
(d) He is badly wounded.

4. At what does Hornblower marvel?
(a) The way Brown handles all the tasks necessary to the comfort of Hornblower and Bush.
(b) The beauty of the countryside while Hornblower travels towards his death.
(c) At how bitter and hostile Caillard is.
(d) Bush's incredible constitution.

5. To whom is Marie married?
(a) Marcel.
(b) Louis-Marie.
(c) Antoine.
(d) Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is frightening that the men encounter?

2. How many miles have the men traveled on the first day?

3. What does the doctor do to help Bush?

4. Where do the men spend their first night in France?

5. What does the Spanish warden demand?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Hornblower and Brown implement an escape?

2. In what shape is Bush at the beginning of Chapter 5? What does the doctor tell Caillard? What does Hornblower say?

3. What are mostly in Hornblower's thoughts as he waits his future?

4. How does Hornblower appeal to Caillard's humanity and what is Caillard's response?

5. What does Hornblower think about when told Admiral Leighton might die? Do you think his thoughts make him less that honorable?

6. Why might Marie be a better match in some ways for Hornblower than his wife or the Admiral's wife?

7. What does the French innkeeper do for the English prisoners before they leave? What thoughts does Hornblower mull as they travel in the coach?

8. What happens to the coach that stops travel for a while?

9. What does Hornblower say is the reason Bush should not be executed and what is Caillard's response? What does the response say to you about his character?

10. How did Hornblower end up where he is at the beginning of the novel?

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